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“take my hand”

“how gentle is your friend and kind.” Vespers. Devotional. Breathtakingly sparse. Elegant. Wondrous. Moving. Rare.          – Kirby AMANDA JERNIGAN YEARS, MONTHS, AND DAYS (Biblioasis) Now in store.  knife | fork | book

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Tuesdays, or ‘Poets Day’

Days like these. Tuesdays.  knife | fork | book Pictured: Poets, Ben-Adar  Jaclyn Piudik  Walter Barclay  Bänoo Zan  Andrew Winchur  Andrew Whiteman Photos: Kirby

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Essential Eckes

From the new book of poetry General Motors by Ryan Eckes pic.twitter.com/0qqSdA0uRW — anne boyer (@anne_boyer) April 23, 2018 RYAN ECKES GENERAL MOTORS is to the bone essential…adamant green cracking through pavement. – Kirby Available, print on demand, here. Photo: KIRBY

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Hare does Kirby

Toronto artist PHILIP HARE lovingly created this exquisite rendition of KIRBY’S “You’re Welcome” from their chapbook She’s Having a Doris Day, KFB’s newest “broadside,” a pink bandana!,  available for preorder online ShopKFB. SOLD OUT

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Big love

Jessica Joy Hiemstra Shannon Bramer Ben Gallagher James Lindsay Noah Wareness Khashayar Mohammadi Ally Fleming Kate Sutherland Jacob McArthur Mooney Conor McDonnell Fan Wu David Seymour A. Light Zachary Torben Robertson Doyali Islam Ben Meyerson A. F. Moritz Host: Kirby   “The Sparrow is more than a selected poems; it is also a single vast poem, […]

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The Little Poetry Shop That Could*

You may have noticed we’ve taken a little breather these past two Fridays. That’s about to change… MAY 25  BIG AL’S LOVEFEST POETS READ A.F. MORITZ TO MORITZ CELEBRATING THE SPARROW (ANANSI) JUNE 1  JARED STANLEY  | BEN MEYERSON JUNE 8  DANI COUTURE | DAVID JAMES BROCK | ANNICK MACASKILL NO MEETING WITHOUT BODY (GASPEREAU PRESS) TORONTO LAUNCH JUNE 9 ADÈLE BARCLAY  A. LIGHT ZACHARY CANISIA LUBRIN JUNE 15  JIMMY MCINNES | JAMES LINDSAY | JOHN NYMAN | JIM JOHNSTONE  […]

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POETRY IS REVOLUTION

“WORK TO LIBERATE THE CREATIVE SPIRIT IN ALL MEN” You Say You Want A Revolution: Remembering the 60s through Sep 1 The Stephen A. Schwarzman Building NYPL Photo: KIRBY (She’s still an old liberationist at heart.)

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On the boards

Just a sampling. Find it here. knife | fork | book No, we don’t have everything in store, (some titles sell out, quickly; there’s a lot of poetry being published) and we aim to be your source for poetry. We readily fufill special orders and offer the best prices we can on US/International titles (and […]

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Chirp

a ‘lil sparrow told me. Mark the date. knife | fork | book

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CAll

Instead of politically correct, maybe it’s just plain correct to love someone and want them to have a place in this world where they are not persecuted and murdered. If you are someone who uses the term “politically correct” to dismiss the needs and concerns of others, try taking a moment before you say the words and […]